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AHSS Fellowship
The AHSS Fellowship is a competitive award supports one student per year who intends to pursue a high-impact learning opportunity, either during the summer before their junior or senior year or in the fall semester of their junior or senior year. Such high impact practices include, but are not limited to earning academic credit with study abroad, competitive internship, artist/musician residency or independent research projects. Please consider a gift to support the academic success of our AHSS Fellows.
Student Engagement Fund
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Student Engagement Fund supports grants for students’ scholarly and creative activities. These grants cover expenses that students incur while pursuing learning activities outside of the traditional classroom such as travel to do research, present, or perform; production costs for creative projects; purchase of research materials, art supplies, costumes for performances, screenplays, sheet music, software if not available at MU or equipment. Please consider helping students achieve their academic goals through these individual grants.
Upgrades for the Wicht TV Studio
The Wicht Studio is one of Millersville University’s premier hands-on learning labs that has prepared many of our alumni for their professional success. The Wicht Studio provides instructional experience in a professionally equipped setting for students from a multitude of disciplines such as media production, content creation, journalism, film, broadcasting and even meteorology. In this facility AHSS faculty foster our students’ creativity and professional growth preparing them for diverse careers in the media industry. We are seeking your support to directly ensure that this facility continues to be an effective and reliable learning environment for the future generations of students.
Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide is one of the longest running academic and educational gatherings on history of the Holocaust in the country. This event brings to Millersville exceptional speakers, educators, public intellectuals and artists to sustain academic and public discussions about the nature and dramatic impact of the Holocaust and genocides. The importance of the Conference as an educational public forum has never been more critical than today as we witness unprecedent growth of anti-Semitism. With your support, the Conference will continue to fulfill its invaluable mission of remembrance and education. https://www.millersville.edu/holocon
Artist in Residence Program
Artist in Residence program brings to the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences an outstanding and accomplished artist/performer whose work connects multiple disciplines in the arts and who serves as an inspiration and a role model to the students. During the residency, the selected artist leads masterclasses and recitals, visits classes, gives presentations and performances and provides mentoring sessions for the students. Please consider supporting this opportunity for our students to meet and learn from inspiring creators in the fields of performing and fine arts.
Engage for Change Journal
In the spring of 2022, we published our first issue on the theme of environmental justice; in the spring of 2023, we published our second issue on the theme of gender justice; and in the spring of 2025, we will publish our third issue on equity and justice in education. We seek funding for our fourth issue, which will cover mental health and wellbeing, and we will use the funding to hire four interns to help us take the Journal to the next level by increasing the number and diversity of published authors.
Your funding will invest in student talent to help them gain professional editorial and publishing experience; specialized skills in marketing, outreach, web design, and project management, and career-ready skills such as communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.
Your funding will illuminate important issues that the Lancaster community is facing and serve to bridge the University and community together to look for potential resolutions to these issues.
We are seeking $6,600 to fund 4 student internship positions for the Fall of 2025 to capture diverse academic and community voices writing on significant public issues.